Compressing man pages
steven at luke.UUCP
steven at luke.UUCP
Sat Jun 8 14:48:10 AEST 1985
In article <1607 at reed.UUCP> omsi at reed.UUCP (OMSI) writes:
>Anyone consider keeping man and cat pages in compressed form? As they hog about
>6 Meg or more on most systems, an additional 2-3 meg free might be very welcome
>by many. Seems like it might take a little bit of an effort but be well worth
>it for small systems. Anyway, just a thought.
>
> Bob Ankeney tektronix!reed!omsi
I think this is an excellent suggestion! I wish I had thought of it
first. We normally remove all of the online manual, due to space
constraints. However by compressing or `pack'ing that stuff, it would
be available. It might then be easy enough to pcat or uncompress it or
something through nroff.
Thanks for the suggestion Bob - if we do anything about it, I'll let you
know.
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